Camping!

We love to camp! This year we broke down and purchased a pop up tent trailer, affectionately known at The G.R.U.B. We decided that since we made this purchase we would commit to camping at least once a month. In July we were able to go for a long 5 day trip with our nephew and some friends. During our camping trip, our friends little girl asked if I would make her a camping cake for her birthday this year.

Marble cake seems to be the most requested cake right now. This cake was a classic marble sheet cake covered in butter cream. The tent is made of graham crackers, covered in fondant and I made a little sleeping bag and pillow out of fondant as well. The trees are sugar cones covered with royal icing, using the leaf tip. Super easy to do and they look so cute on the cake! I put two of the trees on pretzel rods at different heights to make the tree trunks.

The rocks are chocolate covered raisins and chocolate covered peanuts. Funny, I found "chocolate covered rocks" at Wal-mart in the candy aisle, but didn't think they looked enough like rocks. The wood pile is just regular pretzel sticks cut to various lengths.

My favorite thing about this cake though were the lady bugs. These were made by taking red jelly beans and "painting" them with black royal icing. I think they turned out really cute and just added enough to the cake to make it a little girl's cake.